Revenue will start grabbing the property tax from homeowners’ pay packets from June, it confirmed today.

The taxman admitted it will take the cash from the wages or welfare payments of people who have not paid up within the next five weeks.

Chairwoman Josephine Feehily admitted not everybody who is liable for the levy has got a letter confirming thousands have not got anything through the letterbox.

But she warned even if you don’t get any notification you will still have to pay up.

Ms Feehily said: “The first LPT receipts have been credited to the exchequer, and with five weeks to go to the online filing deadline more 218,903 LPT returns have been received by revenue as of this morning.

“However it is important that I take this opportunity to remind property owners that they are liable for local property tax even if Revenue hasn’t contacted them.”

Taxpayers have two weeks to file a return by post and five weeks to go online and file a return for the crippling levy.

Otherwise the taxman will start to come after you with Ms Feehily claiming she expects four fifths of people to comply with the deadlines.

She said: “We get more than 80% compliance on other self-assessed taxes. I am starting at 80% and I will be disappointed if we don’t reach that.”

Ms Feehily warned non-compliant householders if they don’t pay up, it will be taken anyway.

She said: “We will enforce it by deduction at source from their payroll if they’re on PAYE, or from occupational pensions if they’re on occupational pensions.

“In relation to the self-assessed, if they haven’t paid and filed their LPT return by the time they’re filing their tax return in October – then they will be surcharged on their tax return.”

The Revenue Commissioners have received more than 218,000 local property tax returns with five weeks to go until the online filing deadline.

Meanwhile, Fianna Fail’s Michael McGrath has called on the Minister for Finance to change the for persons with a disability who have had adaptation works carried out to their homes.

He said the exemptions only apply to a ‘permanently and totally incapacitated person’.

He said: “In my view, the provisions in the property tax legislation pertaining to disabled persons are absolutely cruel, discriminatory and ridiculously complex.

"The government is trying to give the impression that it is giving an exemption to people with a disability but instead it has deliberately designed a scheme that will be of no practical use to the majority of people who have had their homes adapted.

“This exemption is extremely narrow and discriminates against a person who may have acquired a disability over the course of their life.”

Meanwhile, the taxman said it expects an additional €65million in tax from retired people who are claiming a receipt of a private pension and a State pension.